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The United States is under attack. Foreboding news bombards the president. Danger stabs Washington. The army stands at full alert. The navy patrols...

On the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid, look back to the controversy of the 100th anniversary in 1959 ? in the midst of the Civil Rights...

Although the radical abolitionist assault on the U.S. armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry has gone down in history as John Brown?s Raid, the 59-year...

Our Lady of Sorrows has contributed to battlefield preservation more than any school in the country, read their story.

Historian Dennis Frye argued that the Battle of Harpers Ferrry was the pivotal moment of the 1862 Maryland Campaign.

Ten Facts about the role of the town of Harpers Ferry in the American Civil War.

Telegram from the Superintendent of the Arsenal at Harpers Ferry to Secretary of War, October 19, 1859:

JOHN D. STARRY, sworn and examined. By the CHAIRMAN: Question: Will you state what is your age, where you reside, and what your profession is? Answer...

Richard Realf, Andrew Hunter, Samuel Chilton, John Unseld, Daniel Whelan, and John Starry's testimony before Senate Committee regarding Harpers Ferry

National Park Service historian Dennis Frye describes the fateful events of John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859.

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